Ok, I uploaded a couple of albums to my player a couple of days ago using V3.0 alpha7 and Emplode 2.0 final. It worked out just fine. So come last night I go to add some more songs to the player again. Well, this time the player took forever to rebuild the database. So I thought that the software had frozen and unplugged the player. When I plugged it back in to power it started to rebuild the databases on the player it self with the percentages running until it finally started. After that I went and tried to synch with Emplode and it started to check disk integrity for quite some time. After about 20 minutes I just unplugged the power again since I had to get some sleep and could not monitor it overnight. So here I am the next morning and when I plugged the player into my sled in the car as expected, it starts to rebuild databases again......Fast forward I am now at work and want to try and synch with Emplode 2.0 final here at the office....Question is, is this safe to do or do I have to use the same computer as I started with. The reason I ask is because a while back I thought I read something somewhere on the BBS about how you could not stop half way through a synch and change computers.

This should help you: http://www.riocar.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=8&faqent=220#220

bye

whee do i get alpha 7 anyway

OK, I am hooked up in Hyperterminal and it seems that it won't accept my input. I get the EXT2-fs warning and when I try to follow the commands from the FAQ on how to rectify it I get this:

empeg-car bootstrap v1.02 20001106 (hugo@empeg.com)
If there is anyone present who wants to upgrade the flash, let them speak now,
or forever hold their peace...it seems not. Let fly the Penguins of Linux!

e000 v1.04
Copying kernel...
Calling linux kernel...
Uncompressing Linux..................................... done, booting the kerne
l.
Linux version 2.2.17-rmk5-np17-empeg52-hijack-v378 (root@ibbm) (gcc version 2.95
.3 20010315 (release)) #2 Sat Feb 21 18:05:39 EST 2004
Processor: Intel StrongARM-1100 revision 11
NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.94.1 (c) 1998 Corel Computer Corp.
empeg-car player (hardware revision 9, serial number 10101980)
Command line: mem=16m
Calibrating delay loop... 207.67 BogoMIPS
Memory: 15016k/16M available (980k code, 20k reserved, 364k data, 4k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 2048 (order 2, 16k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
Page cache hash table entries: 4096 (order 2, 16k)
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 16384 bhash 16384)
IrDA (tm) Protocols for Linux-2.2 (Dag Brattli)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
SA1100 serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0xf8010000 (irq = 15) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS01 at 0xf8050000 (irq = 17) is a SA1100 UART
ttyS02 at 0xf8030000 (irq = 16) is a SA1100 UART
Signature is 67706d65 'empg'
Tuner: loopback=0, ID=-1
Scheduling custom logo.
empeg display initialised.
empeg dsp audio initialised
empeg dsp mixer initialised
empeg dsp initialised
empeg audio-in initialised, CS4231A revision a0
empeg remote control/panel button initialised.
empeg usb initialised, PDIUSBD12 id 1012
empeg state support initialised 0089/88c1 (save to d0005480).
empeg RDS driver initialised
empeg power-pic driver initialised (first boot)
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
empeg single channel IDE
Probing primary interface...
hda: IBM-DJSA-230, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DJSA-230, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x000-0x007,0x038 on irq 6
hda: IBM-DJSA-230, 28615MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
hdb: IBM-DJSA-230, 28615MB w/1874kB Cache, CHS=58140/16/63
empeg-flash driver initialized
smc chip id/revision 0x3349
smc9194.c:v0.12 03/06/96 by Erik Stahlman (erik@vt.edu)

SMC9194: SMC91C94(r:9) at 0x4008000 IRQ:7 INTF:TP MEM:6144b MAC 00:02:d7:22:07:b
c
Partition check:
hda: hda1 < hda5 hda6 > hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
RAMDISK: ext2 filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Timezone: /usr/share/zoneinfo
empeg-pump v0.03 (19980601)
Press Ctrl-A to enter pump...VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 4k initempeg init 0.8
I see this is a developer image!
Mounting proc
Mounting first music partition
Tried to mount /dev/hda4 as reiserfs but got error 19
Mounting second music partition
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Press 'q' now to go into development mode. You Have Zero Seconds To Comply...
Starting player
Timezone: /usr/share/zoneinfo/Atlantic/South_Georgia
Hijack: intercepting config.ini

hijack: removed menu entry: "Hard Disk Detection"
hijack: removed menu entry: "Serial Port Assignment"
khttpd: listening on port 80
kftpd: listening on port 21
player.cpp : 564:empeg-car 3.00-alpha7 2004/02/13.
! tags.cpp : 61:Failed to open tags (0xc0041002).
Prolux 4 empeg car - 2.1490 Feb 13 2004
Vcb: 0x4082c000
Restored terminal settings
Remounting first music partition read-only
Remounting second music partition read-only
Player exited normally: 0
Switching to shell-player loop
Starting bash.
empeg:/empeg/bin# rwm
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
ro
EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
unmount /dev/hda4
unmount /dev/hdc4
swapon /empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# unmount /dev/hda4
bash: unmount: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# unmount /dev/hdc4
bash: unmount: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# q
bash: q: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
um^Hnempeg:/empeg/bin# q
bash: q: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# unmount /dev/hda4
bash: unmount: command not found
empeg:/empeg/bin#

What am I doing wrong?

Hi there,
seems like you always entered 'unmount' instead of 'umount' ... !

Just do it like it's in the FAQ:

ro
umount /dev/hda4
umount /dev/hdc4
swapon /swapfile
fsck -fay /
fsck -fay /dev/hda4
fsck -fay /dev/hdc4
swapoff /swapfile
sync

...and you should always wait for the shell-prompt to reappear, before entering the next command.
Up there you entered rwm and didn't wait for the process to finish before entering the next commands...rwm always takes a while...

Cheers,
Ken

OK, I am seeing things this morning...(Lack of Coffee). So I entered as shown below and get this after I enter fsck -fay:

empeg:/empeg/bin# ro
empeg:/empeg/bin# umount /dev/hda4
empeg:/empeg/bin# umount /dev/hdc4
empeg:/empeg/bin# swapon /swapfile
Adding Swap: 16596k swap-space (priority -1)
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda5 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/hda5: 1512/4096 files (0.5% non-contiguous), 9996/16384 blocks
empeg:/empeg/bin# fsck -fay /dev/hda4
Parallelizing fsck version 1.19 (13-Jul-2000)
e2fsck 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
ext2fs_check_if_mount: No such file or directory while determining whether /dev/
hda4 is mounted.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes

As of now after about five minutes there is still no shell prompt after the last line I entered. Is this the way it is supposed to be?

Yes. It is now doing the music partition on the first hard drive. Depending on the hard drive capacity and how much music you have on it, it can range from a few minutes to almost an hour (for really full 80GB drives).

Just wanted to pass on a word of thanks to all of you for your great help....as usual. Help like this though seems like the status quo around this BBS It is really refreshing. Cheers!!